Hotel Maestoso, at the Lipica Stud Farm near Sežana in Slovenia, can host company meetings, congresses, team-building days and weddings. The hotel has three meeting halls of its own, the stud farm adds more halls and outdoor grounds, and the Conversano conference centre handles business events of up to 4,000 people.
Seminars and company events
The conference offer is organised around the Conversano congress centre, which the stud farm describes as 11 indoor halls plus outdoor locations on the estate grounds. Team-building and incentive programmes are organised on site, so a seminar can combine a plenary session with an outdoor day on the stud farm. The halls are described as modern and bright, with audiovisual and IT equipment.
The events team answers requests directly, which helps when a programme mixes several rooms, a gala dinner and activities outdoors.
Weddings and receptions
The castle gardens in the historic core of the stud farm are listed as a wedding venue for up to 200 guests. They are suited to receptions, picnics and private parties and open directly onto the castle café. Restaurants on the estate can be rented for private events, and the whole hotel can be hired for a private buyout.
Rooms and capacities
In the hotel, Allegra seats 60 in theatre style, 30 in classroom and 18 in a U-shape. Monteaura takes 40 in theatre style, 20 in classroom or 20 around a boardroom table. Capriola is the largest hotel hall, with 120 in theatre style, 60 in classroom and 32 in a U-shape.
In the historic core of the stud farm, Bonavista holds 120 guests in daylight, or 30 in classroom or U-shape. Bonadea takes 50 in theatre style and 20 to 22 in classroom, U-shape or boardroom layouts. A private buyout of the entire hotel suits 100 to 200 guests, with 200 in theatre style and 144 in classroom.
Larger formats are available outdoors and in the riding facilities: the event riding hall takes 550 guests, the hippodrome up to 6,000, and the pastures take picnics for 150 guests.
Accommodation
Hotel Maestoso is a four-star superior hotel with 139 rooms. Categories include basic rooms with views of the Karst and the stud farm, sport rooms with space for riding, golf, running or cycling gear, larger comfort rooms, suites with two balconies, family rooms and smaller rooms for one or two guests. A group can stay in the building where it meets.
Catering
Restaurant Gratia serves a la carte dishes built on local Karst ingredients, with Karst wines. The castle café sits beside the castle gardens. Other restaurants on the estate can be reserved for a private dinner, which gives a group more than one option for the evening meal.
History and setting
Lipica is a stud farm estate in the Karst region. Events here take place among the stables, pastures and historic buildings of the working farm, which gives a programme a setting that a city conference hotel does not offer.
Getting there
The address is Lipica 5, 6210 Sežana. The estate has a large free parking area and lies about 10 minutes from the motorway, which suits groups arriving by coach or car.
